Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BYRON WHITE...
...Quaker parents, was the first major American painter to make a career in Europe; he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. West might be known as the American Raphael, but this praise was as excessive as Lord Byron's dismissal of him: "the flattering, feeble dotard, West,/ Europe's worst dauber, and poor Britain's best . . ." He knew how to cater to Europeans' expectation that he, as an American, would be a cultural Natty Bumppo; when he went to Rome as a young man and was shown the Apollo Belvedere...
Religion. Powell took a highly eclectic approach: he voted to allow Pawtucket, R.I., to place a creche in a municipal Christmas display, but also to strike down an Alabama law authorizing a moment of silence in public schools. Justices Rehnquist, Byron White and Antonin Scalia want to go further than Powell ever would in approving state practices that foster religion, and O'Connor would like to rewrite the court's standard test for deciding when such practices are constitutional. Powell's successor might make a majority...
...facing some of his greatest challenges since he became Treasury Secretary in 1985. Baker, 57, is seeing many of his initiatives -- on worldwide economic growth, Third World debt and the alignment of currencies -- stymied. As a result, his aura of achievement has lost some of its luster. Says Byron Wien, chief domestic- portfolio strategist at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "The initial enthusiasm for Baker and his initiatives has dissipated. We all hope he'll get his second wind...
Other band members include John O. Sousanis'87; Laura Blodgett '89; Warren Hill of Boston;Byron DeLear from Los Angeles; and David Schommerof Berkely, California...